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July 2022
Boston Globe
At the MassQ Ball, Bostonians wear a different sort of mask

June 2022
Boston Globe
Black News Hour: Meet Ashleigh Gordon, Castle of our Skins cofounder

December 2021
CityLine on WCVB
The Music of Frederick C. Tillis
Part I, II, III

December 2021
New York Times
An Orchestra Offers a Novel View of History

August 2021
The Strad
'Juba' from Florence Price's String Quartet in A Minor

April 2021
The Bay State Banner
Castle of our Skins explores the beauty and power of African American spirituals

April 2021
The Boston Globe
Amplifying the Black Composers Who Brought Spirituals to Classical Music

February 2021
New York Times
Black History Month is a Good Excuse for Delving Into Our Art

February 2021
The Boston Globe
Boston Musicians on the Black Composers to Hear Now

February 2021
​BR Klassik (German)
HAUTFARBE SOLLTE KEIN GEFÄNGNIS SEIN

January 2021
NYTimes
For These Classical Musicians, It's Always Been About Racial Equity

August 2020
The Boston Globe
Meet the Inaugural Creative in Residence for Boston's Castle of our Skins

July 2020
I Care If You Listen
5 Questions to Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa (Castle of our Skins Creative-in-Residence)

July 2020
Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness
Are We Hearing a Crescendo in Classical Music?

July 2020
​Arts Boston
10 Local Black Musicians You Should Know

March 2020
Dorchester Reporter
An "Innocent" Idea Takes Off

​May 2019
Cityline on WCVB

​May 2019
WBUR The Artery
With 'I Am A Man,' Castle Of Our Skins Rewrites The Narrative Of Black Masculinity

​November 2018
New Music Box
What the Optics of New Music Say to Black Composers 

July 2018
I Care If You Listen
Five Questions to Ashleigh Gordon and Anthony Green

July 2018
Not Brahms and Lizst on WMBR

May 2018
The Boston Globe
Castle of our Skins Celebrates ​Music of Black Women

May 2018
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Ain't I A Woman?

​December 2017
The Bay State Banner
In The Castle of Our Skins

​August 2017
Improper Bostonian
The Leader Board

​March 2017
Classical Music in Color
Classical Music in Color: Castle of our Skins

March 2017
The Artery
Two Classical Groups Kick Off Boston's Alternative Space Program

November 2016
The Gettysburgian
Castle of our Skins Finishes an ​Impassioned Residency at Gettysburg

October 2016
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Black Composers Matter

September 2016
The Boston Globe
Creating a Spotlight for Black Composers

June 2015
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Harmony in the Pews